Serial ATA?

Alexandre Biancalana biancalana at gmail.com
Thu Dec 23 05:10:24 PST 2004


I recently installed two machines with this motherboard. The
controller is supported but your Raid features not....




On Thu, 23 Dec 2004 00:59:23 +0100, Michal Mertl <mime at traveller.cz> wrote:
> Peterhin wrote:
> 
> > I would like to move over to FreeBSD from Linux, only been there for a
> > year.
> >
> > I am starting at groung zero. I have read the hardware list for 4.9
> > STABLE and
> > 5.2.1 RELEASE. All I can find in 3.1 "Disk Controller with Promise
> > ATA100/133
> > OEM chip (pdc20265/69)  I am using a ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe motherboard,
> > with a
> > Promise PDC20378 Raid Controller and a Western Digital Serial ATA H.D. Will
> > FreeBSD work.?
> 
> Yes. The controller is definitely supported. I'm not entirely sure about
> RAID functions but they are most probably supported too.
> 
> If you have looked at supported hardware for 5.3 you would find a link to
> ata(4) manual page, which lists the controller as supported.
> 
> It has been supported for long time but only recently (for 5.2) it got into
> manual pages and even more recently it's reflected in the release
> documentation (for 5.3).
> 
> Michal
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